Securing reef-points of sails



UMTED sTaTas PATENT ernten.

JOHN W. LOGAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SECURING REEF-POINTS OF SAILS.

Specicaton of Letters Patent No. 28,589-, dated June 5, 1860.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN 7. LOGAN, of the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have made a new and useful Improvement in the Modes of Securing Reef- Points or Nettles in Eyelets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l shows the rope passed through the jack line and seized to it. Fig. 2 shows the rope increased in size on the opposite side of the eyelet. Fig. 3 shows the mode of fastening the double reef-nettle.

The usual method of fastening a single reef-nettle is by passing it through an eyeletand sewing it fast to both sail and eyelet. These are liable to great wear and are constantly in danger of being cut by the strain, and as they require many stitches to hold them in the sail, they cut a great part of the sail. It would also be very inconvenient to use metallic eyelets. My plan is to use an eyelet suited to the size of the rope. The rope is then passed through as shown in Fig. l, and fastened by seizing (A,) to the pack-line (13,13). The rope as thus fastened on the one side, and the diameter of the rope being increased on the other side as at (0,) Fig. 2 it is fastened permanently in the *eyelet (D). The advantages of fastening in this method are, less wear, no fastening to the sail by sewing, the ease with which the reef-nettles may be removed for repairing or stowing away by cutting the seizing, and permitting metallic eyelets to be used.

The pre-sent mode of fastening the double reef-nettle, is by passing one leg of the reef-nettle through the eyelet from the forward side of the sail, around the jack-line and back to the forward side. Hence the eyelets are almost as large again as for the single reef-nettle, and of course, weaken the sail. To overcome this defect, I use an eyelet of the ordinary size (F), and then place the center of the reef-nettle (Gr,) close to the eyelet (F,) and secure it by seizing (H,) passed through the eyelet, and around the jack-line (K, K, K,) on the opposite side of the sail. By filling the eyelet with the seizing, there can be but little wear. The great advantages of this method are the avoiding of the large eyelet, and the ease with which the nettle can be removed from the sail by simply cutting the seizing.

Having thus described my improvements, what I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. Securing single reef-nettles by passing them through eyelets, and fastening one side by increasing the diameter of the rope, and the other by securing the nettle by' seizing to a jack-line, substantially as described.

2. Securing double reef-nettles by placing the center of the double reef-nettle close to an eyelet, and fastening it by seizing through the eyelet to a jack-line upon the opposite side of the sail, substantially as described.

JOHN W. LOGAN. )Witnesses z J. EDWIN CHILD, ADAM R. RnEsE. 

